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Has the family became symmetrical?
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Has the family became symmetrical? When we talk about family, we should think of the relationships and the roles between the individuals in families. Young and Wilmott's 'The symmetrical family' is the study based on middle class families in London, showed that families have become more equal and symmetrical with husbands and wives having an equal share of responsibilities in the home. They see the family as having passed through 3 stages to reach this: 1. The Pre-industrial families - the family is a unit of production, parents and children work as a team to provide shelter, food, clothing etc. in order to survive. Family unit mainly consisting of extended families. 2. Early Industrial families - this phase was seen as one of disruption, in which the family and household were torn apart by the effects of the industrial revolution. The father became more absent from the family and role of housewife and mother...
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